MSU to play Oklahoma at 10:07 p.m. Friday in Sweet 16

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Ed Itor in Rexrode

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Old adversaries and best friends will meet when Oklahoma and Michigan State play at about 10 p.m. Friday in Syracuse in the East Regional semifinals.

The adversaries – also friends, by the way – are MSU coach Tom Izzo and Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger. Kruger was Illinois’ head coach from 1996 to 2000, leaving to take the Atlanta Hawks job that spring after Izzo turned it down. Izzo was 6-3 vs. Kruger when Kruger was at Illinois. - Read more at Freep.com